Embraer: ‘Air Astana is contradicting its own allegations’

Brazilian airframer Embraer upholds its position that the lawsuit of Air Astana over quality issues with its five E190-E2s is unfounded and that any obligation to pay financial compensation to the airline is out of the question. Embraer restates its position in a so-called motion to dismiss that it presented in late June to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, which has scheduled a hearing on this document on September 7. Embraer: ‘Air Astana is contradicting its own allegations’.

As reported before on AirInsight, the dispute

between the airline from Kazakhstan and Embraer continues behind the scenes. Parties had until mid-July to exchange legal documents after procedural issues delayed this for most of the past months.

The dispute centers around quality issues with Air Astana’s fleet of five E190-E2s that have been leased by AerCap and joined the airline between December 2018 and November 2019. In July 2021, Air Astana filed a lawsuit with the New York Supreme Court and requested $12 million in remedies, stating that it was forced to ground three E2s from December 2020 following a raft of software and hardware issues. Some caused uncommanded in-flight vertical deviations and as such affected safe operations, the airline said. It claimed that the aircraft was not airworthy but that Embraer “masked the gravity of its failings” and that its behavior “smacks of intentional wrongdoing.”